The Global Network is excited to announce that our founding ambassador, actress Alyssa Milano has committed a matching donation from a previous donation she made in 2007 to our Campus Challenge Contest.
Now, thanks to Milano’s contribution, the university organization or group that raises the most money will win a matching donation of up to $25,000 in the university’s name towards NTD control efforts.
“The strong voice of college students is crucial to raising awareness and necessary funds to the control and prevention of NTDs,” said Milano. “I am happy that part of my donation is going towards the Just 50 Cents Campus Challenge, an innovative initiative that has the potential to significantly reduce the devastation caused by NTDs.”
The Campus Challenge is a major component of Just 50 Cents, the Global Network’s signature grassroots campaign. The Campus Challenge is a contest which provides an opportunity for full-time undergraduate and graduate college students to become Student Ambassadors in the fight to prevent and eliminate the world’s most common NTDs. The contest, which was launched on November 2, 2009, will end on April 2, 2010.
By organizing a Just 50 Cents fundraising campaign in their school, workplace, or community, Student Ambassadors, whether leading an individual campaign or involved in a group campaign with university organizations, can have a tremendous impact in the fight to improve the lives of the world’s poorest people. A donation of just 50 cents per person, per year, is all it takes to provide treatment for the seven most common NTDs.
Thanks Alyssa for your continued support and efforts to helping control and eliminate NTDs!
Good luck to all of the Campus Challenge contest participants this semester!
For more information on the Global Network’s Campus Challenge and our Just 50 Cents grassroots effort please visit http://globalnetwork.org/just50cents. Participate in a campaign of your own today!
That is why I am so honored to be named a Grassroots Ambassador for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases. As a Navy physician, and humanitarian I have seen with my own eyes the disfigurement, malnutrition and suffering that children throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America endure. I have seen bellies swollen, full of parasitic intestinal worms which prevent proper absorption of nutrition leading to stunted growth, and ultimately impaired development. I have placed my hands on these bellies and felt the writhing invaders inside. Capable of being eliminated with a simple pill that costs less than that can of diet coke you are drinking. I have seen children afflicted with lymphatic filariasis which causes blockage of lymph channels and the disfiguring disease known as “elephantiasis.” Those afflicted not only suffer extreme physical pain, but are frequently ostracized from society.